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barry-ran/qtscrcpy vs mltframework/shotcut

barry-ran/qtscrcpy shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, qtscrcpy shows healthier maintenance signals than shotcut. qtscrcpy rates Healthy overall while shotcut rates Mixed. qtscrcpy last saw a commit 2 months ago with 15+ active contributors, while shotcut last saw a commit 1 month ago with 5+ active contributors. qtscrcpy is Apache-2.0-licensed while shotcut is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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barry-ran/qtscrcpy

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit 5w ago
  • 15 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

mltframework/shotcut

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 5 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

qtscrcpyshotcut
Stars29,41913,907
Last commit2mo ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Open issues60242
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage5%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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